TULSA, Okla. — The YMCA of Greater Tulsa encouraged kids to get moving ahead of summer with their Healthy Kids Day event.
“Welcome to Healthy Kids Day 2025,” said Kyle Wilkes, the Chief Development Officer for the YMCA of Greater Tulsa. “This is our day that we try to prepare our families and kids for the upcoming summer to be focused on healthy activities, healthy habits and a number of different activities.”
Wilkes explained some of the activities the YMCA put together for Saturday’s event.
“We really just want to keep people moving today, so we have FC Tulsa here working with kids on the soccer field. We have the Thunder here working with kids for basketball. We have different types of activities like the jump rope contest that just happened behind us, Moon Jump behind us, in addition to just some informational tables about ways that families can be supported. Even some body painting and face painting going on as well. We have a mad scientist that’s creating fun different science projects for the kids to be able to make toothpaste and different colored explosions and really just want to bring people together in a safe place to really focus on an amazing day on this Saturday.”
Beyond helping kids be active, Wilkes said the YMCA aims to use events like these to bring families together.
“We take family strengthening very seriously and we focus on who we’re going to bring into our facility. We focus on the entire family unit…There’s been some studies that have shown that families have less than 30 minutes of family strengthening time per week in a safe environment and the YMCA loves to be able to provide that for people.”
Wilkes said the event allowed them to inform parents about the YMCA’s upcoming summer activities.
“It’s a great opportunity for us to give exposure to what’s going to happen during those critical months of out of school time, like swim lessons, like summer camp, like youth sports and things that people can [do] to stay healthy and active.”
Wilkes stated the YMCA of Greater Tulsa is currently hiring people to fill seasonal positions for the summer months.
“If someone’s interested in coming in for a seasonal position, whether it be for swim lessons, a lifeguard, a camp counselor, even a counselor in training with a teenager, we have multiple opportunities to give people in this community a chance at their first job and to be able to get an opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives as they do so.”
To learn more about the YMCA of Greater Tulsa, their programs, hiring opportunities and more, you can visit their website at ymcatulsa.org.
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